Nasa’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) Project Recently Concluded Wind Tunnel Tests of Its X-66 Semi-Span Model in Partnership with BOEING. The model, designed to repract half the aircraft, allows the research team to generate high-quality data about the aerodynamic forces that would affect the actual x-66.
Test Results Will Help Researchers Identify Areas Where they can refine the X-66 Design-Potentially Reducing Drag, Enhancing Fuel Efficiency, Or Adjusting the Vehicle Shape for Bettering Qualities.
Tests on the Boeing-Built X-66 Semi-Span Model Were Completed at Nasa’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley in its 11-Foot Transonic United Plan Facility. The model underwent tests representing expected Flight Conditions SO the Team Block Obtain Engineering Information to Influence the Design of the Aircraft’s Wing and Provide data for Fligt Simulators.
Semi-Span Tests take advantage of symmetry. The forces and behavioors on a model of half an aircraft mirror that on the other hal. By using a larger half of the model, engineers increase the number of surface pressure measurements. Various sensors were placed on the wing to measure forces and movements to calculate lift, drag, stability, and other important characteristics.
The Semi-Span Tests Follow Earlier Wind Tunnel Work at Nasa’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, Using AMaller Model of the Entre Aircraft. Engineers will study the data from all of the x-66 wind tunnel tests to determine any design changes
The SFD project is nasa’s effort to develop more efficient aircraft configurations as the nation moves toward aviation that’s more economically, socially, socially, and environmentally sustainable. The project seeks to provide information to information to information of single-aisle airliners, the most common aircraft in Commercial Aviation Fleets Around the World. Boeing and nasa are partnering to develop the x-66 Experimental Demonstrator Aircraft.
